less confrontationally, what would be a useful definition of culture death, and while we're at it, what makes a living culture?
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Replying to @allgebrah
those are big questions! What specifically prompts them?
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Replying to @Meaningness
specifically, I disagree that subcultures are dead (http://www.synkretie.net/writings/subcultures%20are%20not%20dead.html … - I am not especially nice to you there, sorry)
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Replying to @allgebrah
Finally had a chance to read this! I hope I can clarify the issues when I write more about subcultures.
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Replying to @Meaningness @allgebrah
Would it be rude to ask how old you are? (I’m kind of guessing you weren’t around during what I call the “subcultural era”)
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Replying to @Meaningness
Huh--may I ask ~ how old you are? Trying to calibrate my (teenage) recollection of subcultural dissolution in late 90s to yours
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Mid-50s… I date the end of the “subcultural era” to about 2000, so you just caught the tail end of it as it was dissolving
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Replying to @Meaningness
(I just barely caught the tail end of the hippie-countercultural era as *it* was dissolving!)
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Replying to @Meaningness
Aha! Thank you. I'm still struggling to articulate the question I hoped that would answer, but it seems important.
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Replying to @eigenrobot
I don’t know what your question was… but a possibly relevant thing is that people born around 1960 (like me) are >
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too young to be culturally boomers (we missed the hippie culture) and too old to be Gen X punks, so we have no culture >
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Replying to @Meaningness
of our own, and are aliens looking at the world from outside. >
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